A rebuttal: Postal service runs net profit

Once this immediate hurdle is overcome, the postal community can focus on continuing to adapt to society’s evolving needs. The Internet offers both challenges and opportunities. For example, more people now pay bills online but also order online – and those goods must be delivered. Already, last-mile USPS delivery of packages for FedEx and UPS, inexpensive given its universal network, is a fast-growing profit-maker.

Since Benjamin Franklin’s days as the first postmaster general, the Postal Service has been adapting, and it’ll keep doing so. Letter carriers will continue to devise proposals for a USPS that serves ever better the needs of residents and businesses, even as we carry out our jobs with the dedication that’s led the public to name us the most-trusted federal workers six years in a row.

And columnists aiming to shock, mislead, and denigrate everything government does will have to look elsewhere to promote their ideological goals.